approximately doubles the probability of engaging in many types of crime. Low SES children are both more likely to be mistreated and … measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the …

children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental …

high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …

victimization surveys and compares the role of individual and family characteristics for five forms of childhood violence, including … different types of domestic perpetrators. This study finds that children aged 0 to 12 are the most exposed to sexual abuse …, aggravated violence, and domestic abuse; that 30% of young victims of sex and threats will be victimized again; and that the …

, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence … impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that … exposure to violence during the first trimester of pregnancy leads to a small but precisely estimated increase in the risk of …

An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … violent crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …